Birthday Nam
…On a previous maha-harinam, of course on saturday, we were approached by one business man and friends loitering outside of a cafe. He approached asking if we would come inside to sing happy birhtday to his colleague. The man was then brought to Danavir Goswami who at first told him that we just chant Hare Krishna. In reply to this the man said 'I am willing to make a considerable donation', and as H.H. Danavir Goswami was okaying the whole thing to take place the man further added; 'and you can chant Hare Krishna'. We,...
read moreHaving a Hard Day
Dear Book Distribution Arena, Please accept my humble obeisances! All glories to Srila Prabhupada! Thanks for all the encouragment to go out and try to make anothers day better. Here is one story from the airport in Los Angeles. The day was Bhaktivinode Thakurs merciful appearance day and Mrtyujaya Prabhu and I were distributing books in terminal five, Delta. Los Angeles has a very beautiful arrangement for book distribution, being that a devotee brings all of the individualized lunches for all of the devotees at the airport. On the blessed...
read moreSelling the Full Set (brahmastra)
But why to distribute the Full Set of Prabhupada's books? Why not a lesser amount of books? In our war against Maya, we have to utilize our complete arsenal. Back to Godhead, as Srila Prabhupada described, is a single bullet. A subscription to BTG sent out monthly through the mail is like automatic fire. Then there are the paperback books. Each one is like a grenade. They are something more likely to remain in a person's home. Then we have the heavy artillery, bombshells fired one by one or in short salvos. They are the hardbound...
read moreGet the Mercy
When Srila Prabhupada was present on the planet although there were a few thousand devotees, people thought there were millions of devotees all over the world. Wherever one would go he would meet devotees. There are still many devotees but now when people meet us they ask "Where have you guys been all these years?" I guess it is time to wake up and go out. My experience on harinam is that people are very eager to meet devotees and ask questions. B ut unfortunately for some reason it is so hard to get devotees out. I don't know...
read moreBook Distribution on Janmastami
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada! As usualy this year Janmastami festival in Lithuania was held in camp near Vilnius. More then 200 devotees from Lithuania participated and HH Bhakti Vikasa Swami was the main guest. After big kirtan and long lecture about the reasons why did the Lord comes (based on BG 4.9), Maharaja mentioned about the importance of studying the Lords pastimes, reading Srila Prabhupada books, etc. "It isn't enough to have one set of Srila Prabhupada books at your home,- said he at...
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